Shirley Eaton (born 12 January 1937) is an English actress.
Eaton appeared regularly in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and achieved notability for her performance as Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. Preferring to devote herself to raising a family, Eaton retired from acting in 1969.
Eaton was born in London and raised in the suburb of Harrow Weald.
Throughout her career, she appeared with many of the top Briti...
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Shirley Eaton (born 12 January 1937) is an English actress.
Eaton appeared regularly in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and achieved notability for her performance as Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. Preferring to devote herself to raising a family, Eaton retired from acting in 1969.
Eaton was born in London and raised in the suburb of Harrow Weald.
Throughout her career, she appeared with many of the top British male comedy stars from the period including Jimmy Edwards, Max Bygraves, Bob Monkhouse and Arthur Askey. Her female co-stars included Peggy Mount, Thora Hird and Dora Bryan among others. Her early roles include Three Men In A Boat (1956) and Date with Disaster (1957), in which she co-starred with Tom Drake. She also worked with The Crazy Gang in Life Is a Circus (1958) and with Mickey Spillane in The Girl Hunters (1963) in which Spillane played his own literary creation Mike Hammer. She starred in a version of Ten Little Indians (1965) with...
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